The squads will be trimmed to 15 by the end of this month.
The Maharashtra government on Friday filed an appeal in the Bombay high court challenging the acquittal of the five accused in the Ghatkopar bomb blast case.
PCB director of operations Saleem Altaf said he would ask the England and Wales Cricket Board for neutral umpires for the series.
Pakistan will play two Tests and three ODIs next March and April.
India are scheduled to tour Pakistan from January 1 and play Tests in Lahore and Faisalabad, two venues where England have faced problems.
Released on Friday after his detention under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) was revoked, former chief minister Farooq Abdullah drove from his residence to nearby Hari Nivas where his son, also a former chief minister, has been held first under preventive custody since February 5 under the PSA. The two warmly embraced.
Pakistan's intelligence agency detained bothe the clericks for their alleged links with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, official sources said on Saturday.
Pakistan will play three Tests and seven ODIs when they come to India in 2007-08.
The Pakistan leg-spinner has bowled 134 overs in two championship games for English county Essex.
Pakistan Cricket Board will try to save sinking career of fast bowler Shabbir Ahmed by consulting Australian specialists
We are liberals and democratic. We have against us the feudalists and the mullahs of Pakistan who have issued fatwas against us.
'Without trust the negotiation process will fail again,' says MQM leader Altaf Hussain.
The teenager was injured in clashes between protesters and security forces in Harwan on Friday.
The PCB has set up a three-man inquiry committee to probe the conduct of Shoaib Malik for conceding a Twenty20 Cup match.
This is the first visit by diplomats to the newly carved out UT.
The Pakistan skipper was also fined 30 per cent of his match fees for excessive appealing on day 5 in the third Test against India.
The Valley, which was brought under a virtual curfew with communication networks snapped on August 5 after the government abrogated special status to Jammu and Kashmir, has seen little difference in the last seven weeks as public transport is still not available and schools waiting for students to collect assignments.
The Pakistan team management has advised its players to stay away from the Indian media and concentrate on the first Test, reports said.
The players were forced to take turns to board a small plane out of New Delhi on Tuesday because Dharamsala only has a small airstrip.
"It (JK) is not a political issue as far as I can see. They have been barking up the wrong tree for the last 50 or 70 years by talking about the politics of it, that the political situation has never improved. We seriously need to look at in terms of how it is a society that is in search for itself," Drabu had said at an event organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in New Delhi on Friday.
A Central Pollution Control Board official said the AQI entered the "severe plus" or "emergency" category late on Thursday night, the first time since January this year.
In an audacious move, 11 young Kashmiri militants donning army fatigues and holding firearms, posted their photographs on Facebook, forcing the security forces to sit up and take notice.
India's date of arrival in Pakistan hasn't been finalised yet but the bilateral series will finish on February 15.
The Pakistan fast bowler had surgery to remove a cyst in his right heel and has been advised rest.
The PCB also retained Saleem Altaf as manager of the team for next month's tour of the West Indies.
Bangladesh's high court on Sunday banned male doctors from examining rape victims to save them from embarrassment. "You must ensure no male doctors take part in examining the victims of rape," a two-judge bench said summoning the director general of health services.
In 2013, India had displayed the Inter Continental Ballistic Missile Agni V during the Republic Day Parade. The chief guest at that time was Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.
The stone narrowly missed Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq who was sitting near the window.
"Younis is a lot better, but he's not match fit. So it's unlikely that he'll be able to play," Saleem Altaf, manager of the Pakistan team said.
Two soldiers were injured in the initial firing, an army official said, adding that the cordon has been strengthened.
They were produced in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate S H Oza in Gandhinagar.
A Chinese pistol, a wireless set and some documents were recovered from the militants, who were identified as Altaf Hussain and Aftab Ahmed.
Pakistan officials hope Sunday's match will encourage other countries to send their teams by next year.
Shahadat-e-Al-Hikma claimed it has 10,000 commandos and 25,000 fighters working to bring an Islamic revolution.
Colonel Tahir of the Rangers said that the intelligence-based raid was launched after reports that people involved in crimes were hiding there.
Modi told the delegation that urgent action was needed against those supporting and sponsoring terrorism.
Declining to grant any interim bail to stockbroker Ketan Parekh in the Rs 120 crore (Rs 1.20 billion) Calcutta Stock Exchange payment scam, the Supreme Court on Monday adjourned hearing on his bail plea till April 14.
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